Japan Flora: Tufted, hirsute perennial; culms 40-90 cm. long, erect, with pilose nodes; leaf-blades flat, linear, 10-30 cm. long, 5-8 mm. wide, pilose; ligules membranous, trun­cate, 1-2 mm. long; sheaths rather elongate, pilose, the radicd slightly folded; racemes 3-5, 5-10 cm. long, with a tuft of long hairs in the axils; spikelets short-pedicelled, broadly elliptic or nearly orbicular, 25-2.7 mm. long, rounded and short-mucronate at apex, glabrous or with minute, spreading hairs near margins; second glume and sterile lemma alike, 3-nerved, thinly membranous, pale green; fertile lemma orbicu­lar-elliptic, coriaceous, slightly lustrous, rounded to very obtuse, pale.  Aug.-Oct Waste places and cultivated fields in low­ lands. 

Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu; China, and Korea